The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that defendants in securities fraud cases brought by the SEC are entitled by the Seventh Amendment to have the SEC’s claims for civil money penalties decided by a jury and not in an...more
8/28/2024
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Administrative Proceedings ,
Article III ,
Civil Monetary Penalty ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Jury Trial ,
Public Rights Doctrine ,
SCOTUS ,
SEC v Jarkesy ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Fraud ,
Seventh Amendment
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Enforcement Division has launched an investigative initiative targeting the use of contractors and distributors by public technology companies operating internationally. The...more
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) reached one of the largest-ever resolutions with a cryptocurrency exchange on August 10, 2021. BitMEX is virtual currency...more
8/20/2021
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Bank Secrecy Act ,
BitMEX ,
CFTC ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Digital Assets ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Financial Institutions ,
FinCEN ,
FinTech ,
Popular ,
Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) ,
Virtual Currency
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Sweden’s financial supervisory authority (“SFSA”) recently fined Swedbank AB a record 4 billion Swedish kronor (approximately $386 million) for deficiencies in its anti-money laundering (“AML”) processes...more
4/19/2020
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Beneficial Owner ,
BSA/AML ,
Corruption ,
Cross-Border Transactions ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Financial Crimes ,
Financial Institutions ,
Financial Transactions ,
Know Your Customers ,
Money Laundering ,
Sweden ,
White Collar Crimes
Earlier this month, Danske Bank A/S – Denmark's largest bank – announced that the United States Department of Justice ("DOJ") has initiated a criminal investigation relating to the bank's Estonian branch....more
10/30/2018
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Corruption ,
Criminal Investigations ,
Denmark ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Estonia ,
Financial Institutions ,
Financial Transactions ,
Jurisdiction ,
Money Laundering ,
Popular ,
White Collar Crimes
Today while addressing white collar practitioners at the New York City Bar Association, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced a new DOJ policy to avoid the “piling on” of multiple penalties for the same...more
Orrick partners Greg Morvillo and Amy Walsh co-authored an article for Law360 that examines how certain significant developments in various industries, coupled with official statements by the U.S. Securities and Exchange...more
3/7/2018
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Decriminalization of Marijuana ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Digital Currency ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Marijuana ,
Omissions ,
Opioid ,
Pain Management ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Regulatory Standards ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Spoofing ,
Virtual Currency ,
White Collar Crimes